When the dead teach: Exploring the postvital life of cadavers in Danish dissection labs

Abstract

This article follows the postvital lives of bodies donated to science, exploring their continuing material and social lives after the donor has died. I explore how the postmortem wishes of those who decide to donate their bodies to science intersect with

Keywords

• anatomy
• ambiguity
• death
• dissection
• ethics
• postvitality
• pedagogy